If it weren't for the popularity of the tournament and enough profits, it wouldn't be possible to sustain the cost of anti-cheating measures.
For Li Yang, it's also a good thing. Without cheats, Aurora Studio wouldn't be able to hire over 1,600 professional reviewers and have hundreds of thousands of free player inspectors. A special skin for those inspecting players would be enough.
Currently, Aurora Studio has over 10,000 employees worldwide, with an annual operating cost around four billion.
Previously, relying on selling manuals within the game, it only made a few billion a year. This year, Bai Qing launched a premium manual priced at 199. Due to the luxurious gun skins and outfits involved, over 10 million players purchased it globally, equivalent to one out of every fourteen people.
But essentially, it still operates at a loss, relying on broadcasting rights and advertising fees to subsidize.
